BitTorrent users tracked
From Boing Boing
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"I recently was forwarded a message from a concerned reader who was just served a copyright infringement notice for downloading Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith. FOX is going after small-time downloaders. The letter was sent by BayTSP (on behalf of 20th Century FOX), who appear to be making good on their claim that they can effectively track BitTorrent users. I've posted the full contents of the notice (minus any identifying information) and included contact information for BayTSP in case readers have any questions or comments.
I'm off to see it at the weekend... so they can have my $$ (maybe then i can download it 
(only joking)
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gone wireless
speaking of mobile devices... I have now finally sorted out a wireless network for the home (chez mule). Came to a grand total of €190 for a ADSL router/modem 2xwireless PC cards 1xlaptop card. Got them from a new PC shop that opened up in the town center called MYCOM, helpful staff who know their stuff and pretty nice prices to boot!
So no more wire trailing all over the house WOOO HOO!!
BTW (thanks to jon2082 for the helpdesk stylee support)
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FREE RSS aggregator news reader
sorry to rave on about this.. but I just discovered that in Mozilla Firefox there is an RSS aggregator they like to call 'Live Bookmarks'.
But it's great.. and very useful.. even shows up my favicon.ico icon file...YAY
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Great Browser
So hopefully you are all using the very lovely Mozilla FireFox as your preferred internet browser (Mac users differ I guess)
OK so I just started adding some of the cool extensions, like this wicked weather forecast thingy, very subtle, very sweet.
note: I'm also using the googlebar and tabrowser preferences...any others?
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Favicon ?!
OK.. so I've known about favicon for a while.. but I needed to make another one and just found a rather useful site that addresses the old problem of squinting at huge pixels for hours to get your nice logo into a 16x16 space...all this so it looks cool when someone hits your site and sees this >
in the address bar.
chami.com explains:
"Would you like to display your own icon on the browser address bar when visitors view or bookmark your web page?
Now it's easy to create icons for your web pages with FavIcon from Pics. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size/resolution) for the "Source Image" and click "Generate FavIcon.ico"
I strip down images to their bare elements, with a white background, try and keep your upload image square
They seem to have tons of other free stuff too.
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BAD CODE
From Boing-Boing
Beanbag bondage chair website code almost as fun as chair itself
Remember that "Bond Age Beanbag chair" with chains, blogged here yesterday? Oh, of course you do, pumpkin. Anyway, crafty BoingBoing reader Adam tips us off to the fact that the manufacturer's website includes a very poorly designed CMS feature that allows you to pass whatever text you fancy along to the image caption. Let's break this down. Here is the URL that links to details on the "Bond Age" beanbag chair from Jucci.com's homepage:
Heh. Notice how the last bit of that url is the caption text? That could just as easily become:
Or, frankly, whatever the hell you like. Have fun with their server logs!
one from me >>>
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F3ll0wsh1p of teh R1ng
The LOTR irc log files
[at the Council of Elrond]
Gimli: "dwarves pwn!"
Legolas: "Sif, Elves pwn!"
Boromir: "OLOLOL noobs, men pwn!"
Elrond: "STFU tards!!1!"
**Frodo puts the ring on the plinth
Gimili: "Sif ring pwns all!"
**Gimli swings his axe at it, which shatters
Elrond: "**sigh, noob"
lololol
Link
you may also need this
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Press 'shift' to copy
Copy restrictions that Music Producers put on Audio CDs is supposed to help reduce music piracy by preventing buyers from burning more than three copies, among other restrictions.
But it remains a work in progress -- songs ripped from the CD don't play on Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod digital music player.
And users loading the CD on a PC running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system can easily bypass the protection features by pressing the "shift" key.
Phoenix-based SunnComm Technologies Inc., the company behind the copy-protection features on "Contraband," says its technology is not supposed to be hacker-proof, just effective enough to reduce piracy overall.
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The Great Esc
Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped invent the ASCII coding system that is used in computers to represent text has died age 84, he also contributed the escape key and the backslash to the computer language.
On his website, he described himself as a "Computer software consultant, futurist and raconteur."
A memorial service in binary is scheduled for Saturday.
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1GB of spam coming my way
I just got mine!
Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.
1000 megabytes of free storage
No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners
Use Google search
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
HUZZAH for Google!
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TT fonts
Nice large selection of fonts from TV shows like Buffy and Care Bears awwwww.
Site also has Game, Band, Chocolate fonts..etc etc.
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Radioactive Camera Lens
Also colloquially “hot glass.” Lens glass which contains radioactive rare earth elements such as thorium (Th).
From the 1940s through to the early 60s lens makers (including Kodak/Aero Ektar, Leitz/Leica, Canon and Pentax/Takumar) sometimes included traces of thorium in certain lens elements because it lowers the refractive index of the glass. And some radioactive contaminants sometimes found their way into (usually non-radioactive) lanthanum (La) compounds used in other types of glass.
If you’re concerned about your old lens or viewfinder (though nearly all commercial lenses built since the 1960s should be free of radioactive materials) you can try putting it on a piece of high-speed film or paper in a pitch-dark place for a week. If the developed emulsion shows fogging you should have the lens tested by a professional with a Geiger counter to determine how radioactive it is.
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First Mobile Phone Virus
The French unit of the Russian security software developer Kaspersky Labs said that that virus - called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks".
According to the anti-virus software developer F-Secure, the discovery of Cabir is proof that the technologies are now available to create viruses for mobile phones and that they are now known to the writers of computer viruses.
Anti-virus experts have been warning for months that mobile phone viruses are set to multipy, given the increasingly diverse uses of mobile phones.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
LINK
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Converting AVI files
OK so I'm 'backing up' several of my DVDs for Personal use!
I have some software I'm using and thought it'd be good to share....
Firstly I'm ripping the DVD to very high quality AVI file, this takes ages and produces a 1:1 copy of the disk.
For this I am using INTERVIDEO DVDCopy
After that I need to get the DivX compression going and make the file smaller. (thanks to jon2082 for the links)
This guide will explain how to convert an
AVI to DivX,
DV to DivX,
XVID to DivX,
DivX to DivX,
VCD(MPG/DAT) to DivX,
SVCD(MPG) to DivX,
DVD(MPG/VOB) to DivX or
ASF to DivX.
With MP3 audio. You can also use this guide to reconvert DivX 3 to DivX 4+ or convert to uncompressed AVI or XVID.
Tools required: DivX/XviD Codecs, ASF Codecs, MP3 Audio Codec and Virtualdub or Virtualdub1.3c or Virtualdub-MPEG2-AC3.
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Lectures on MP3
20 lectures on science fiction in MP3 format.
The University of Minnesota has posted the audio from 20 lectures from its "Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy" distance-ed course.
This is a great idea I think, really make use of your time and technology.
Downloading now for mrsmules ipod.
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Yoda speaks like Anglo-Saxon
Yup.. thats right...speaking like Yoda, is like stepping back 1500 years (not forward as expected).
Mr Crystal, a professor of linguistics at Reading University for 20 years, said Yoda - a Jedi master in the Star Wars films - was a good way to get children interested in how preferences in English word order changed from the Anglo-Saxon era to that of Middle English.
'FULL OF THE FORCE I AM'
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Support Indi Artists on Kazaa
Now then.. I put my mixes out on Kazaa for all to download and enjoy... but to give my dayjob and produce a second album... now thats some success, all thanks to Kazaa File sharing. To date, Kazaa users around the world have downloaded and shared 10 million Ten Mile Tide songs.
Read more about the kazaa revolution
YAY!
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Fun Web link maker
Here's a neat site to make fun buttons like this one
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Windows source code leak .... the juicy bits
Some insight into Microsoft's famous daily build process is given in:
privatewindowsmediaaviverinfo.16verinfo.h:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!IF YOU CHANGE TABS TO SPACES, YOU WILL BE KILLED
!!!!!!!!!DOING SO F**KS THE BUILD PROCESS
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and...
privatentosw32ntuserclientnt6user.h:
* The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with that of the national debt.
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visibly better accessibility for your website
This is how mrmule.com would look if you had Deuteranope colour blindness. I wasn't too suprised, but this site is fairly colour free i guess... anywho, Vischeck is a visual guide to colour blindness, with simulator and instructions and application to correct images.
Certainly an interesting and educational visit nonetheless.
A must if you run a charity or access site. (see also WIA - Web Accessibility Initiative)
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search Pi
Yes thats right, you can now search Pi for kinds of useful stuff.
I searched for my birthday (tres useful i know).. which actually appeared!
needless to say I will not publish the position for security reasons.
you can also download Pi to 50 million digits!
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random links
http://www.linkdump.be a daily list of random links supplied by random people
todays random link is
For Arnolds Sake
(fighting for marijuana legalization)
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Free Pinhole camera
DIRKON ? THE 35mm PAPER CAMERA
"This Czech designed pinhole camera is made from carefully cut out and constructed paper (needs to be stiff and lightproof). The name comes from the Czech word for pinhole (dirka) and a pun on Nikon. Uses 35mm film. Remember that you'll want a long exposure for a pinhole camera."
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calculator is oldest consumer electronic device still made
Hewlett-Packard Co. claims its little HP 12C is the oldest consumer electronic device still in production.
Do people actually still use calculators?.. I just seem to use the one on whichever PC/laptop is closest.
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How to rip vinyl, the mrmule way!
grab the following:
technics deck (good quality cartridge is a must)
mixer (pre-amp)
Cambridge audio leads
Creative Sound Blaster Extidgy
widescreen laptop
connect, power on, record, stop, save.
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How to rip vinyl, the NYT way
Found at boingnet
The NYT has published a detailed how-to for converting vinyl to MP3s or CDs. When Napster started, it solved two distinct problems. The obvious one was that you might not have the CD handy that you wanted to listen to (either because you hadn't bought it or because you'd left it somewhere else, i.e., at your parents' place while you went to college), but the more subtle one was that ripping CDs used to be really hard. You needed specialied software, tons of hard-drive space, and you had to title all those tracks by hand.
This meant that once one person had gone to the trouble of ripping a disc, it made a lot of sense not to replicate that effort: better to download someone else's rips from her Napster share than to go through that fooforaw on your own.
Today, ripping CDs is literally a one-click operation, but ripping vinyl is still very freaking hard. Newsgroups like alt.binaries.sounds.78-era often get nice payloads of ripped wax, shellac and vinyl, but the general attack on P2P means that this stuff is getting harder and harder to find on demand, which means that more and more of us are having to individually rip our music, one side at a time, in order to transfer and preserve it (80% of the music ever recorded isn't available for sale -- if you want to hear the song on that groovy LP through your iPod's headphones, you're gonna have to get ripping).
Some LP restoration software suites, including Pinnacle Clean Plus ($100), come with an external preamp that plugs into a U.S.B. port and works with your existing sound card. (Clean Plus and other software choices are described in more detail in the accompanying article.) There is also the iMic from Griffin Technologies ($40, www.griffintechnologies.com), a small input device that converts analog signals to digital outside of the computer, eliminating the possibility of electronic interference from other computer components...
You also need lots of hard-drive space, because sound files occupy about 10 megabytes per minute; that would be almost a gigabyte for all 77 minutes of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica."
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Youth giving calculator
Your friendly mrmule is now celebrating his 16 and a half birthday on Mars this week.. so yay for martians and they're youth giving maths.
Go enjoy the Creative Anniversary Calculator and find out how many months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds old you are!
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One for the old man!
Worlds 1st GIGAPIXEL image?
It consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite. The final image is 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size, and contains about 1.09 billion pixels...a little more than one gigapixel.
How was it created?.. readmore
you can also have the worlds most difficult game of where's Wally?
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Free Webtools for your website
Ok so I got my online MP3 player working..yay!!!!
Heres the site who gave me the code and the help to get it all working.
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Fresh Logo Designs
Great Logo ideas arranged into groups:
droplets
refinement
pop
natural spirals
animorphic
canted
alpha-face
shadows
transparency
green
punctuation
labels
photo icons
slinky
wire
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How to Bluejack
detailed guide on how you can bluejack someone. I'm assuming you know what bluejacking is by now...
1. Get your hands on a Bluetooth-enabled device (mobile phone, PDA, laptop). For the majority of us, we'll be using phones, so for this guide I will assume that you will be too.
2. Create a new phone book contact, with the message you want to send to someone in the 'Name' field. e.g. 'I like the look of your cappuccino'
3. Go to a busy place (see Tips & Tricks for examples of good bluejacking spots)
4. Select the contact you made earlier, and choose 'Send via Bluetooth'
5. Your phone will search for other Bluetooth devices roughly 10 metres around you. It will either list available devices, or say none could be found. If it doesn't find any, choose another spot.
6. Your phone will list the names of devices in range. Sometimes the names will give you a clue to the model of phone.
7. Select one of these devices listed for your phone book contact to be sent to.
8. If all goes well, your contact will be sent to the selected device
9. If you can, try to casually look around you and see if you spot anybody with a bluetooth enabled phone/device nearby looking truly puzzled. It would help greatly if you know which phones have Bluetooth and which don't. This way, you can eliminate anybody who is looking at, say, their Nokia 3310 which doesn't have Bluetooth.
10. The rest, as they say, is up to you
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New virus in a zip file
W32.Mimail.E@mm is a variant of W32.Mimail.D@mm that spreads by email. It is packed with UPX.
The email has the following characteristics:
Subject: don't be late! [random string of letters]
Attachment: readnow.zip (contains readnow.doc.scr)
Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the infections of W32.Mimail.E@mm.
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